When the sun set, in front of the rows of cauldrons on both sides of the ten major canals outside Linhe City, there were still people gathering to burn the fire--Fu Dashuai wanted to burn the water of the Yellow River and invite the heavenly soldiers and generals to burn the water of the Yellow River in order to fight the Japanese devils. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 As a result, the people of the whole city were mobilized, more precisely, the big cauldron and the small pot of the whole city were mobilized. All these eating fellows moved to the earthen stoves on the banks of the ten major canals, and the firewood of the carts was also transported, and for a time the smoke and hot water were rising on the ten major canals, and the ice cubes in the canals were scooped up and burned, and pots of hot water were poured into the canals.

"How's it going?" Liu Chunfang, the commander of the cavalry regiment, asked his soldiers. The cavalry regiment no longer rode horses, and specially rowed a lambskin raft to inspect in the ditch. According to the requirements of the navy, there must be no ice edges in the water, otherwise the plane will have an accident when it lands.

"There is no ice. No ice. "A few small rafts returned, boiling water for seven or eight days, and the nearby woods were almost cut down.

"Captain Liu, let's check again at three o'clock in the middle of the night." Wang Ren, a graduate of Tsinghua University's Department of Aeronautics, also stood on the bank of the canal. He was responsible for choosing the landing site for the Boeing 314 seaplane, and he was worried about digging a canal on the bank of the Yellow River, and he didn't want the city outside Linhe County to be full of irrigation canals, which are wide and long, and the best landing ground is when the ice melts.

"Good. Mr. Wang, let's go back and rest first. It's on me here, and the plane really can't do anything. "Liu Chunfang is a typical Suiyuan man, not tall, his appearance is not good, but as soon as he rides on the horse, he is heroic and extraordinary.

"Okay." Wang Ren nodded. The sun was about to set, the ice in the canal was all burned, and all that was left was to hope that the plane would not get lost. This is the matter of Zhu Hongyuan and Tao Hengxian, who have found a diesel engine in case the navigation station battery is insufficient.

"Commander Fu, this is the cargo list, if it's okay, the Hong Kong side will take off at nine o'clock tonight." In Linhe County, Zhong Qiangong handed the telegram he had just received to Fu Zuoyi.

The telegram was full of code names, and what the code names represented was all memorized in Zhong Qiangong's mind, and he carefully annotated them with a pencil before giving them to Fu Zuoyi. Fu Zuoyi first looked at the message, and then looked at his pencil annotation on the side. This is the navy's assistance to itself, and it is also the protection and lease fees paid by the navy -- the navy will build a radio navigation station on a leased area in Suiyuan, and the navy personnel will be responsible for the safety of the navigation station, and Fu Zuoyi will be responsible for the safety of the leased area, and he will also assist in providing oil or coal for the radio station's engines.

"Brother Zhong, what kind of cannon is this little fat man? How big the caliber. "The general-purpose machine gun is easy to understand, but the gunsmith with the code name 'Little Fat Man' does not understand it, and the pencil is just annotating the 'small-caliber breech gun'. Small caliber, how small is the caliber?

"This," Zhong Qiangong didn't know how small the small caliber was. When he was still in the army in Germany, small-caliber generally referred to artillery below 37mm, and once he was transferred to the navy, the six-inch naval gun was called small-caliber artillery by Li Kongrong. "Commander Fu, I don't know. But looking at the establishment of six guns in a company and eighteen guns in a battalion, I think it should be a 75mm caliber mountain artillery. ”

"Ahh 75mm？ Fu Zuoyi gasped, and Chen Bingqian, who had been in charge of this matter, was also surprised, "Brother Depei, you are not mistaken, right?" That's not a small-caliber breech gun! ”

"I don't think so." Zhong Qiangong took the telegram in Fu Zuoyi's hand and looked at it carefully, and finally found a problem, he pointed to the list of goods of the No. 2 machine and said. "The No. 2 machine could not fit with 850 shells. I think the shells must be more than five kilograms, and the guns should be around 75mm, and at worst there are 57mm. ”

"Okay, great." Even if it is a 57mm mountain cannon, Fu Zuoyi is very satisfied. Now there is only one battalion of Taiyuan mountain artillery produced in Taiyuan in the 101st Division, and the new 31st and new 32nd divisions have no artillery battalions at all. The Navy now aids a battalion of eighteen mountain guns instead of twelve, and if you break up one point, these two new divisions will have mountain artillery battalions.

Fu Zuoyi was happy, completely unaware that because he missed the defense of Wuyuan, Li Kongrong had already reduced the amount of aid to him. If it had been aided a month ago, the number of artillery pieces would have been fifty-four in a regiment. However, it is difficult to transport shells for cannonballs, and each cannon weighs eight tons even if it is only equipped with 1,000 shells according to domestic practice, and the wooden packaging is added. Assuming that an airplane can carry eight tons, it would take 54 flights to transport 54,000 rounds of shells from Hong Kong, and it would take a month for three cargo planes to carry all these shells. At present, in order to reduce the amount of material transport, even the Mauser cartridges for general-purpose machine guns are solved by the recipients themselves to save the amount of transportation.

"When will Hong Kong take off at night and get here?" Chen Bingqian was also overjoyed, the more he looked at Zhong Qiangong, the more he smiled.

"About seven or eight hours." Zhong Qiangong handed the telegram to Fu Zuoyi again, and said, "Commander Fu will take a look again, if there is no problem, I will call back to Hong Kong and let them set off immediately." ”

"No problems!" Fu Zuoyi didn't answer the telegram, but handed Zhong Qiangong a three-fort, he knew that Zhong Qiangong was not used to smoking local tobacco. Zhong Qiangong took the cigarette and wanted to start the fire, but Fu Zuoyi scraped the match and lit it with his hands in his hands. He immediately took two steps back and said, "How dare you do this?" I order it myself, I order it myself. "Let's start the fire.

"Why don't you dare to be!" Fu Zuoyi sent it up, and said in a tone that could not be refused: "My people have locked up one of you, but you have sent me a battalion of mountain artillery, so I can't light a fire." With that, he lit a cigarette for Zhong Qiangong.

"Haha......" Chen Bingqian laughed on the side, "Brother Peide, you have helped us with so many good things, this is the greatest encouragement to us, we must snatch Wuyuan City back from the Japanese." ”

"It's a pity it's too far." Fu Zuoyi personally ordered the three forts, no matter how much he smoked, he felt more mellow. Regarding the aid, Zhong Qiangong couldn't help but tell the truth. With a one-sided range of 2,000 kilometers, although it can be flown in one night, it will take one night to go back, and the plane will have to be overhauled, and it will fly up to 10 times a month, and it will not be able to transport much things.

"It's good to be able to ship it." Fu Zuoyi was also smoking, he didn't plan to sleep tonight, he wanted to see the small-caliber breech gun that the Navy had aided him. "If the Yellow River freezes, it can be transported to Lanzhou, where it is close, and you can transport things by water."

"Can it be kept secret when it arrives in Lanzhou?" Zhong Qiangong is from Lanzhou, and of course he knows that Lanzhou is closer.

Fu Zuoyi remembered that a few days ago......, a student at Tsinghua University described to him the size of the plane, the wingspan was actually 50 meters huge, and all the trees and mounds within 30 meters on both sides of the ten major canals had to be bulldozed. Such a large plane attracts attention everywhere it flies, and it is impossible to keep it secret.

Fu Zuoyi thought about the big plane, at Waterfall Bay in the south of Hong Kong Island, three Boeing 314 water cargo planes were preparing to take off at night, and the four engines of the No. 1 plane of the leader had been warmed up for half an hour, and the Zhang lines of the instruments, wings, flaps, and ailerons had also been comprehensively checked. Huang Hanguang wore headphones and paid attention to the instructions of the tower. Thinking of returning to China, he, the squadron leader who was about to be shot by Chang Kaishen, couldn't help but be a little excited and worried. Do you want to shoot if you are caught?

"Ant One, Ant One, you can take off, you can take off!" In the rustling of electrical noise, the tower gave the command 'it can take off'. Huang Hanguang immediately came back to his senses, and he said loudly: "Ant No. 1 understands, Ant No. 1 understands." Takeoff. ”

"Yes, sir." Aircraft transportation is like ants moving, and the code names of cargo planes are all ants. As soon as Huang Hanguang said that he had taken off, the co-pilot should signal out the window -- the seaplane cannot brake without wheels, and it must be pulled by the boat to prevent movement when warming up.

"Take off!" Everything was ready, Huang Hanguang pushed down the throttle valve, the engine roared even more intensely, even with headphones, it was extremely noisy, and the fuselage not only trembled while gliding on the water, this tremor also seemed to be transmitted to the pointer of the steering wheel instrument. When Huang Hanguang was worried about the problem with the instrument, he found that it was not the instrument that was trembling, but that he and the co-pilot were trembling. The plane glided faster and faster on the sea, and with the sound of the engine's 'buzz', the body sank, and the tremor of the plane suddenly stopped. Because it was dark at night, Huang Hanguang couldn't see outside, but experience told him that the plane had already taken off.

Equipped with six American M1 howitzers, 100 MG34 machine guns, and 500 rocket launchers, the No. 1 aircraft with its belly loaded with six American M1 howitzers, 100 MG34 machine guns, and 500 rocket launchers did indeed take off, and its wings of 46 meters wide slowly skimmed over the sea, like geese returning from the north, and flew away from Hong Kong Island, which had long been brightly lit. They were followed by No. 2 and No. 3, which flew north after the lights of No. 1. Standing on the tower and seeing that the three planes had all disappeared, Zeng Guosheng said, "Send a report to the destination, the ants have taken off." ”

"You're coming, aren't you?" Fu Zuoyi didn't sleep all night, and at three o'clock in the middle of the night, he couldn't stay still, and he also shouted Zhong Qiangong. However, he didn't shout directly, but first cooked a pot of mutton and asked Chen Bingqian to ask Wang Ren if the college students ate mutton, and when the students came, he said with concern whether your Chief Zhong was awake, and when he woke up, he would eat mutton together. Although it was tactful, Zhong Qiangong came together and saw the expectation in Fu Zuoyi's eyes - the 35th Army was lonely and far away, the supply of materials was very difficult, Chongqing was transported too far, Jinxi was offended again, and the navy gave so many heavy weapons in vain, he felt that everything was very illusory. Four thousand miles to send artillery, is this possible?

"This is for Hong Yuan." Zhong Qiangong smiled and looked at Zhu Hongyuan, who was eating meat, and he and Tao Hengxian were in charge of navigation.

"Brother Depei, the signal is normal." Zhu Hongyuan hurriedly swallowed the mutton in his mouth.

"How long have you been flying?" Zhong Qiangong didn't have any appetite, and he wasn't hungry at all when he first got up.

"It took off at a quarter past nine, and it took six hours and eighteen minutes. If there is no yaw, there is still an hour and a half or so. Wang Ren replied, because it was the first time to land, he really didn't know whether the navigation radio could attract the plane, he remembered that the professor had said that flying at night was very dangerous, even if there was radio navigation, it was easy to have an accident.

"Report!" Radioman Hokkien guy Chen Agui rushed in, "Received an ant signal, arrived in half an hour." ”

"So fast!" The whole room stood up in shock. Chen Bingqian was the most excited, and the cigarette in his hand fell off.

"Then we'll have to go to the Ten Drains to light the fire right away." Wang Ren was the first to react to what to do.

"yes, we're going to have to light the fire right away." Fu Zuoyi also said, he immediately shouted: "Orderly, prepare the car quickly." ”

The Yellow River was freezing, and the weather outside was extremely cold, and Fu Zuoyi was afraid that he would freeze these college students, so he had already prepared a big car. Zhong Qiangong knew that the distance between the city and the ten major canals was seven or eight miles, and it was likely that he would not be able to reach it in half an hour under the black light. "Let's ride a horse. Wang Ren and I went first, and the rest of the people were in charge of liaison. ”

"It's fine. Let's go together. Fu Zuoyi also put on a sheepskin jacket and planned to go to the top ten canals in person.

"The commander is going too?" Chen Bingqian thought that he would just go, but he didn't expect Fu Zuoyi to go too.

"The brethren of the navy have come from afar, and of course I will greet them personally. No more nonsense, let's go. "As soon as the door opened, the cold outside made people hold their breath. Liu Chunfang, the commander of the cavalry regiment in military uniform, was already standing outside. Fu Zuoyi looked at him and said, "The plane is coming, you ride fast, immediately go to the ten major canals as fast as possible, and let them ignite immediately." ”

"Yes." Liu Chunfang knew that the matter was important, and while agreeing, he flew on the horse, his movements were as fast as the wind, and after getting on the horse, he pulled the bridle, and the horse ran away with a 'rhythm'.

"Our 35th Army Commander Liu doesn't dare to say that the first is also the second." Seeing that Zhong Qiangong was stunned, Fu Zuoyi explained. He first asked people to help Zhong Qiangong and Liu Ren get on the horse, and then they turned over and got on the horse, and the group hurriedly left Linhe County.

The cold wind outside the city was even stronger, and Zhong Qiangong didn't go far before he felt that his hands and feet were all frozen, but he still held back and hoped to get to the top ten ditches as soon as possible. It's a pity that he was still late, and when he was still some way away from the ten major canals, he saw the firelight over there, and he saw a frighteningly large plane flying low over the waterfront that was illuminated by the firelight, and it flew low this time just to familiarize itself with the landing field, and flew to the end of the firelight and slowly pulled up, and then began to turn in the starry sky. The first flew by, followed by the second, the third. At this moment, the people on both sides of the channel who were responsible for the night fire were all frightened, fortunately, they had said before that Fu Dashuai burned the river ice in order to invite the heavenly soldiers to fight the Japanese devils in the future, and these people didn't run, they just knelt down and kowtowed one by one.

"I'm Diniangle!" Liu Chunfang ran to the canal for only ten minutes, and the fire on the canal had just been lit for a few minutes, when a rumbling sound came down from the sky, followed by an airplane sweeping over the canal like a Tarzan, and its horse was so frightened that it raised its front hooves and almost lifted him off.

"Commander, planes! What a big plane. Chen Bingqian, who was in front of Zhong Qiangong, also saw the plane passing through the canal, and he shouted excitedly.

"Yes. I see it. Fu Zuoyi had already seen it, and he didn't move his eyes off the plane at all, even if the plane flew into the starry sky with only moonlight. Now the plane turned a corner, swept over the canal again, this time no longer skimming, it was going to land.